Identity has become the control plane for modern security, but the way it’s been implemented hasn’t kept up with modern threats. Most systems still rely on one-time authentication and long-lived access, creating standing privileges that persist long after risk conditions change. This gap leaves organizations exposed. That’s where open standards come in.

Open Standards Enable Continuous, Context-Driven Identity 

Modern identity decisions depend on context. What should this user be allowed to access right now? Has their device posture changed? Is their behavior consistent with normal activity? The answers rarely live in one place. They’re spread across endpoints, identity providers, SaaS platforms, and security tools.

Without a common way to share this information, organizations stitch together proprietary integrations. This leads to fragmented visibility, delayed response, and persistent access that doesn’t reflect current risk. Attackers target these security gaps.

Open standards address this by creating a consistent way to share identity and security signals across systems. They allow technologies from different vendors to work together without custom integration, which makes it possible to enforce identity security policies across the environment.

Open standards like the OpenID Shared Signals Framework (SSF) and the Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP) are central to this shift. They enable systems to exchange signals as events happen, so identity decisions can continuously adapt to changing conditions. This moves organizations toward a standard model where access is continuously evaluated and refined.

How the Falcon Platform Uses Open Standards

The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform generates high-fidelity security and device intelligence, including signals about endpoint posture, user behavior, and active threats. While these signals are valuable on their own, their impact grows when they can be shared across the broader identity ecosystem.

Using standards like CAEP, CrowdStrike can communicate security events to other systems as they occur. For example, if the Falcon platform detects suspicious activity on a device, the signal can be shared immediately with identity providers or access control systems. Those systems can then adjust access in real time, helping reduce risk without waiting for a user to log in again.

This directly connects threat detection to identity enforcement. It helps ensure access is continuously aligned with current conditions, which reduces reliance on standing privileges and limits the window of opportunity for attackers.

In order to have an impact, standards must be implemented, tested, and adopted across the ecosystem. That’s why CrowdStrike’s role goes beyond the OpenID Foundation. 

Through its work with IDPro, CrowdStrike engages directly with the global community of identity practitioners who design and operate identity systems. This helps ensure emerging standards are practical, usable, and ready for real-world deployment.

CrowdStrike is also driving adoption through practical tools and ecosystem engagement. We operate the caep.dev platform, which gives developers a way to test CAEP implementations and build transmitters and receivers using open source components.

These efforts have helped accelerate adoption across the industry. Leading technology providers, including Apple, Google, IBM, Jamf, Okta, and SailPoint, are adopting these standards, helping create a more connected and interoperable identity landscape.

Shaping the Future of Identity Security

CrowdStrike is an active contributor to multiple OpenID working groups, including Shared Signals and AuthZen, and the OpenID AI and Identity Management community group. As a Sustaining Member, CrowdStrike is taking a more direct role in helping guide the foundation’s priorities and the evolution of identity standards.

This reflects a broader shift in how security works. Identity is a continuous process that adapts as conditions change. This requires signals to move across systems without friction, decisions to reflect real-time context, and controls to be enforced consistently across environments.

Open standards form the foundation for identity-first security that is dynamic, interoperable, and resilient. CrowdStrike is both supporting these standards and helping shape how they evolve and ensuring they work in practice. This is the foundation of our vision for next-gen identity security, where identity decisions are continuously informed by real-time signals across the environment.

By combining real-time security intelligence, active standards leadership, and deep support for the practitioner community, CrowdStrike is helping shape the future of modern identity security.

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By contrast, newer “megacaps” like Nvidia may struggle in a downturn.

The size of the investment suggests a strategic decision – especially as the same filing showed Berkshire had significantly sold down its massive Apple position. (Apple remains Berkshire’s single largest stock holding, currently worth about US billion.)

Over the past week, news broke that tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s hedge fund had sold its entire stake in Nvidia in the third quarter of 2025 – more than half a million shares, worth around $US100 million.

Nvidia stocks were up more than 5% to $US196 in after-hours trading immediately following the results.

Over the years, those advantages have acted like alligators in Google’s moat, keeping competitors at bay.

Buffett’s new stake in Google

But that framing misunderstands Buffett’s investment philosophy and the nature of Google’s business.

Just weeks ago, Nvidia became the first company valued at more than $US5 trillion – surpassing others in the “magnificent seven” tech companies: Alphabet (owner of Google), Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp) and Microsoft.

But with its rivers of online advertising gold, experience back to the dawn of the commercial internet, and capacity to use its platforms to nurture new habits among its vast user base, Alphabet is far from a bad bet.

But establishing that business model wasn’t easy. Google had to weave its way through pre-internet intellectual property law and global anxiety about change.

Buffett’s record of picking winners with ‘moats’

The search giant has fended off actions over copyright and trademarks and managed international regulatory attention, while protecting its brand from scandals.

Yet he has long expressed scepticism toward technology businesses. He also has form in getting big tech bets wrong, most notably his underwhelming investment in IBM a decade ago.

Berkshire Hathaway likely sees Google’s track record in these areas as an advantage rivals cannot easily copy.

Buffett is about to step down as Berkshire’s chief executive. Analysts are speculating this investment may offer a pre-retirement clue about where durable profits in the digital economy could come from.

Google won the search engine wars of the late 1990s because it excelled in two key areas: reducing search cost and navigating the law.

Perhaps the genius of Berkshire’s investment is recognising that if the AI bubble bursts, it could bring down some of the “magnificent seven” tech leaders – but perhaps not its most durable members.

Two alligators in Google’s moat

New tech, such as “agentic shopping” or “recommender systems”, can increasingly bypass search altogether.

His firm’s latest move signals they see Google’s moat as widening in the generative-AI era.

Google Ads now brings in tens of billions of dollars a year for Alphabet.

Based in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States, Berkshire Hathaway is a global investing giant, led for decades by 95-year-old veteran Warren Buffett.

Buffett has picked many winners over the decades, from American Express to Coca Cola.

Consumer-facing giants like Google and Apple would probably weather an AI crash well. Google’s core advertising business sailed through the global financial crisis of 2008, the COVID crash, and the inflationary bear market of 2022.

But in that same quarter, an even more famous billionaire’s firm made a surprise bet on Alphabet, signalling confidence in Google’s ability to profit from the AI era.

These business superpowers will matter as generative AI mutates how we search and brings a new wave of scrutiny over intellectual property.

Disclaimer: This article provides general information only and does not take into account your personal objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is not intended as financial advice. All investments carry risk.

What if the AI bubble bursts?

The better than expected results calmed global investors’ jitters following a tumultuous week for Nvidia and broader worries about the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble bursting.

The world’s most valuable publicly listed company, US microchip maker Nvidia, has reported record $US57 billion ($A88 billion) revenue in the third quarter of 2025, beating Wall Street estimates. The chipmaker said revenue will rise again to $US65 billion in the last part of the year.

Google’s brand, like Buffett, could just get old. Younger people are using search engines less, with more using AI or social media to get their answers.

Company founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page started with a revolutionary search algorithm. But the real innovation was the business model that followed: giving away search for free, then auctioning off highly targeted advertising beside the results.

Plenty could still go wrong

Buffett is not late to AI. He is doing what he’s always done: betting on a company he believes has an “economic moat”: a built-in advantage that keeps competitors out.

With Peter Thiel and Japan’s richest man Masayoshi Son both recently exiting Nvidia, it may be tempting to think the “Oracle of Omaha” is turning up as the party is ending.

There’s no guarantee Google will be able to capitalise on the new economics of AI, especially with so many ongoing intellectual property and regulatory risks.

Google understood earlier and better than anyone that reducing search cost – the time and effort to find reliable information – was the internet’s core economic opportunity.

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